Social science

Machiavelli: A Biography

by Miles J. Unger

He is the most infamous and influential political writer of all time. His name has become synonymous with cynical scheming and the selfish pursuit of power.

Niccolò Machiavelli, Florentine diplomat and civil...

Allah, Liberty and Love: The Courage to Reconcile Faith and Freedom

by Irshad Manji

In Allah, Liberty and Love, Irshad Manji paves a path for Muslims and non-Muslims to transcend the fears that stop so many of us from living with honest-to- God integrity: the fear of offending others in a multicultural...

Cato Supreme Court Review, 2003-2004

by Mark K. Moller

In this annual review, offers a timely analysis from a classical Madisonian perspective, of the most important cases from the Supreme Court's 2003-2004 term. Cato's is the first in-depth review to appear after...

First Contact: Teaching and Learning in Introductory Sociology

by Nancy A. Greenwood

The Introduction to Sociology course is usually the first contact that students have with the discipline of sociology. This course can determine whether students take other sociology courses or learn to use...

Selling Women Short

by Louise Marie Roth

Rocked by a flurry of high-profile sex discrimination lawsuits in the 1990s, Wall Street was supposed to have cleaned up its act. It hasn't. Selling Women Short is a powerful new indictment of how America's...

Shaping Race Policy: The United States in Comparative Perspective

by Robert C. Lieberman

Shaping Race Policy investigates one of the most serious policy challenges facing the United States today: the stubborn persistence of racial inequality in the post-civil rights era. Unlike other books on the...

Survive the Bomb

by Eric G. Swedin

The launch of Russia’s Sputnik satellite in 1957 began an era where American citizens were haunted by fears of annihilation. Baby Boomers will remember Bert the Turtle, who instructed them how to “duck and...

Workable Sisterhood: The Political Journey of Stigmatized Women with HIV/AIDS

by Michele Tracy Berger

Workable Sisterhood is an empirical look at sixteen HIV-positive women who have a history of drug use, conflict with the law, or a history of working in the sex trade. What makes their experience with the HIV/AIDS...

Welfare and Rational Care

by Stephen Darwall

What kind of life best ensures human welfare? Since the ancient Greeks, this question has been as central to ethical philosophy as to ordinary reflection. But what exactly is welfare? This question has suffered...

No One Cares What You Had for Lunch: 100 Ideas for Your Blog

by Margaret Mason

This is the eBook version of the printed book.Tired of filling up your blog with boring posts? Take the next step and get inspired to create something unique. Author Margaret Mason shows you the way with this...

Men, Women & Children: A Novel

by Chad Kultgen

Chad Kultgen, cult hero and author of the buzz-generating illicit classics The Average American Male and The Lie, cuts to the quick of the American psyche like no other author writing today. In Men, Women &...

China and East Asian Strategic Dynamics: The Shaping of a New Regional Order

by MINGJIANG LI

China and East Asian Strategic Dynamics: the Shaping of a New Regional Order, edited by Mingjiang Li and Dongmin Lee, examines how China's remarkable economic growth and its proactive diplomatic efforts in recent...

The Ripple Effect: The Fate of Fresh Water in the Twenty-First Century

by Alex Prud'Homme

 AS ALEX PRUD’HOMME and his great-aunt Julia Child were completing their collaboration on her memoir, My Life in France, they began to talk about the French obsession with bottled water, which had finally...

Dirty Diplomacy: The Rough-And-Tumble Adventures of a Scotch-Drinking, Skirt-Chasing, Dictator-Busting and Thoroughly Unrepentant Ambas

by Craig Murray

With all the pace and drama of a political thriller, Dirty Diplomacy is a riveting account of a young, fast-living ambassador's battle against a ruthless dictatorship in Central Asia and the craven political...

United States v. G. W. Bush et al.

by Elizabeth De La Vega

What if there were a fraud worse than Enron and no one did anything about it?

In United States v. George W. Bush et. al., former federal prosecutor Elizabeth de la Vega brings her twenty years of experience and...

China's Great Leap: The Beijing Games and Olympian Human Rights Challenges

by Minky Worden, Nicholas Kristof & Ladir Van Lohuizen

With contributions from some of the most well respected and experienced Chinese writers, journalists, and organizers, China’s Great Leap examines the People’s Republic of China as its government and 1.3...

Illustrated Buyer's Guide Porsche: 5th edition

by Dean Batchelor & Randy Leffingwell

The Illustrated Buyer's Guide Porsche provides enthusiasts with information and insight helpful to identifying desirable models and avoiding problems as they search for their ideal Porsche. Adding new material...

Zapatista Encuentro: Documents from the 1996 Encounter for Humanity and Against Neoliberalism

by Zapatistas

"Why is everyone so quiet? Is this the democracy you wanted?" So ask the Zapatistas, the group of indigenous Mexicans who, on January 1, 1994, mounted a rebellion against the implementation of NAFTA, political...

The WTO: Five Years of Reasons to Resist Corporate Globalization

by Michelle Sforza, Lori Wallach & Ralph Nader

In this groundbreaking pamphlet, directors of Ralph Nader's Public Citizen group examine the first five years of the World Trade Organization's track record, demonstrating how the WTO aims to create a new global...

When Harlem Nearly Killed King: The 1958 Stabbing of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

by Hugh Pearson

When Harlem Nearly Killed King spins the tale of a little-known episode in the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. how, in 1958, King was stabbed by a deranged black woman in Harlem, and then saved by Harlem...